I’m very pleased to announce the publication of my most recent article, “Obscured Social Construction as Epistemic Harm”, which appeared today in the Journal of Social Philosophy. It’s part of a special issue entitled “Reshaping the Polis: Toward a Political Conception of Disability,” guest edited by Shelley Tremain. All of the articles look fantastic and I can’t wait to dig in.

I was so honored to be interviewed by Shelley Tremain in the 28th monthly installment of the Dialogues on Disability series, hosted by the Discrimination and Disadvantage blog. Our conversation was posted this morning! It covers all kinds of topics, including my experiences with anxiety, the social construction of disability, disability in the university, and my recent academic work.

The Discrimination and Disadvantage blog hosted a symposium this week on my book. The commentaries from recent Author-Meets-Critics sessions this spring at philoSOPHIA and the Canadian Philosophical Association were posted one-by-one and my response to them was posted today.

I’m looking forward to the panel on my book, The Bioethics of Enhancement, to be held this Wednesday at the Canadian Philosophical Association (Congress) in Toronto.

Thanks to Shelley Tremain, who organized the panel, and to the commentators (who I also had the pleasure of working with during last month’s book panel): Ladelle McWhorter, Jane Dryden, Catherine Clune-Taylor, and Shelley. Thank you, again, to each of you! I’m thrilled to reconvene!

I’m looking forward to the panel on my book, The Bioethics of Enhancement, to be held this Saturday at philoSOPHIA in Boca Raton.

Thanks to Shelley Tremain, who organized the panel, I’ve been lucky to receive incredible and helpful comments on my work and related issues from: Ladelle McWhorter, Jane Dryden, Catherine Clune-Taylor, and Shelley. Thank you to each of them! I can’t wait.

Thanks to Luke Ford for interviewing me for the latest episode of Salt Talks. I had a great time discussing the theme of disability and gaming! We talked about the treatment of disability in games and some of the ways gaming is political and can have impacts on disability rights, inclusion, and exclusion. Check it out!

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Melinda C. Hall

Melinda Hall (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stetson University. She specializes in bioethics, Continental philosophy, and the philosophy of disability. Hall is the author of The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (Rowman & Littlefield 2016). The book draws on the work of Michel Foucault to demonstrate that disability is central to the debate over human enhancement. Hall’s work on human enhancement and the social and cultural construction of disability is also published in Disability Studies Quarterly, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Philosophy Compass, and other publications.